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Originally Posted by Soundseed  If you want to avoid using bypass, automate the de-esser threshold to a point where it doesn't trigger for anything, then simply automate the threshold back down/up at the point in the song you want it to work. |
Yes, that's a good solution. All the more reason to find a plug-in that's bit-transparent when it's active but not processing audio.
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Alternatively, for fine control, insert the linear phase eq, and the multiband meter (which only works in stereo - so make sure you are on a stereo track or send the vocal to a stereo aux), then use the meter to identify where the sibillance is most prominent frequency wise; set one of the eq bands to centre on this frequency, then use the Q and gain controls to manually de-ess. When you've fine tuned it, just automate your eq band gain so it dips momentarily at the offending sssssss... This can give much more transparent results.
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I find that automating the linear phase EQ is a bit slow due to the CPU intensive nature of the processing, and not fast or precise enough for fast de-essing in mastering. It isn't workflow friendly either as you usually need to do multiple edits before it grabs at the right point in time and frequency.
I prefer good real-time de-essing whether it's a dedicated de-esser or a dynamic EQ (Sonalksis DS-1) or even a multiband compressor.